Daily Republican., 1887-07-14
Murder ana Attempted Suicide.

At quarter-past 2 O'clock on Wednes-
day afternoon, lit @ girl who was play
Ing In the East Park, Philadelphia, saw a
man, whose face and breast were covered
with blood, crawling on his hands ard
knees toward little brook In the rear OF
strawberry M ansioD, and attempting TO
get some water in a little tin cup which
he carried. Her screams attracted the at
teDtion of the Sergeant of the Park Guard
a. the Edgely guard house, near by, and
he, with Cap'ain Chasteau and some of
the men, ran over towards her. As they
did so they saw the man, who proved to
be suffering from three guns hot wounds
one in the mouth, one in the right temple
and one in the centre of the breast
He was carried to the guard house and
an ambulance summoned, when he was
taken to the German Hospital
While DR.. Bodamar, the pnysi ,iAn in
chief, was examining his wounds he was
perfectly conscious, though much exhaus-
ted. la reply TO the DOCTORS questions as
to why he had shot himself, the man
said: "We were tired of life and agreed
tosdis together" He thea said that If
the grove about two hundred and fifty
yards dlst,n' from where he was found
was searched the dea body of his wife
would be discovered. DR.. Bodamar tele
graphed this Information to Captain
Chasteau, who, on going to the grove
which Is sequestered spot, found the
mans story to be true. The woman was
lying dead on her back, pistol ball hav
ing pierced the left emple and entered
the brain, and another bullet having en-
tered the breast, below tn, breast. bone,
and lodged in the space between the
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one OF the wounds on he mans person,
Near by was found tn weapon with which
the murder and attempted suicide, for
such tn y prosed to be, were p rletrited
At the hospital the man further stated
that his name was Ernst Kamey, and that
he and his wife went out to the Park
early IN the morning, about 6 O'Clock,
with the intention of ending their exist
ence. AT about half past Z O'Clock he
shot his wife, killing her, and then turn
ed the weapon upon himself He fell to
the ground beside her, and lay there for
some hours, awaiting his own death,
Feeling parched, he summoned what
vitality he had left and crawled to the
brook for the purpose of getting drink,
when he was discovered by the little girl
before mentioned and removed by the
guards to the hospital. Besides the
wound In his breast and the other In the
mouth, by which four of the front teeth
OF the upper jaw were carried away and
the palate boue fractured, the wound in
the right temple extended to the outside
of the brain cavity, from which the ball
was removed by Drs. Gross, 6odamar and
Dever. This last may alone p ov, fatal in
case OF abscess, which may not occur for
some days. Last night he was resting
easily.
Mr.. Bernhardt, pastor of the German
Presbyterian chuic said that the parties
were re pectable people. but from what
he had Sc and learned ofKamey he had
reaon to believe that he was not of socnd
mind. He was subject to Illusions, one
OF which was that he had numerous
en- mics, who were always trying O perse
cute him. Mr. Bernhardt referred the
reporter t, Godfiey Weber, of 1249
fancy street, who said that Kamey ana
his wife came here from Germany about
three years ago; that he was a moulder
by trade and had worked at Redmond's
foundry, Broad and Hamilton streets,
that he and his wife lived at Mr.. Weber's
up to Easter Monday last, when his
strange actions compel ed Mr.. Weber and
wife to request him to change bis resi-
dence, as they were fearful he would do
some injury there to himself or them
that since that time they learned he had
been in Baltimore, and was recently living
in the neighborhooi OF Fourth street and
Susquehanna avenue.
Mrs. Kamey was about So years oil, 81
feet, 8 inches in height, and weighed
about 1856 pounds She was of sallow
complexion, with high cheek bones and
long brown hair. She was neatly attlred |
in brown dress and black straw hat, trim |
med with velvet. She also wore an onyx
breast-pin, with earrings to match, and
had on her left hand plain gold wed |
ding ring with the initials .'E. X" in
scribed on the inside. Her remains were
not sent to the Morgue by Captain Chast-
eau, but were retained at the Woolford ,
Guard House to await the action of the
Coroner or any friends the deceased may
have.